Mom becomes human speed bump to save twins

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Mom becomes human speed bump to save twins

LAWRENCE, Mass. (WTVR) — A Massachusetts mother risked her life earlier this month to save her twin toddlers from a moving vehicle. WCVB reports Mindy Tran is now bound to a wheelchair and unable to walk after her motherly instincts kicked and she tried to save her twin toddlers from a rolling car.

Mindy Tran’s is recovering after her right leg was dislocated and her left knee was crushed.

“I had to use myself as a speed bump to slow it down enough for one of my neighbors to get in and completely stop the car,” Tran said.

The accident happened days after the 22-year-old signed a lease at her new apartment.

She backed her Honda into the garage on March 6, put the car in park and had her 2-year-olds buckled into the back seat when she says got out to lock her front door and saw the car moving.

4 comments

sarahk750

Umm….is this not strange and suspicious for anybody else?? Surely it would have been easier for her to jump in the front seat to stop the car rather than diving behind it and getting herself run over…she didnt know her neighbour was going to come..what was she going to do if the car kept going over her and into the traffic still? Sounds like an attempt at self harm or suicide that went wrong so she decided to frame herself as a hero